Eastern Sun, 12 March 1970

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft E»td. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1290 Thursday, 12 March 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Cambodian Mob Sacks Vietcong, Hanoi Offices
    435 1 pHNOM PENH, Wed. (UPI) More than 20,000 Cambodians sacked the North Vietnamese and Vietcong embassies in Phnom Penh today, demanding that Hanoi and Vietcong troops get out of Cambodia. North Vietnamese and Vietcong diplomats fled leaving the embassies unprotected, as the banner-waving demonstrators surged
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    Lock icon Fighting Nude Slaps Painter
    109 1 LIVERPOOL. Wed. (Reuter) Artist Brian Burgess was expecting a SS4OO selling price wheD he exhibited a nude portrait Instead he got a slap in the face from his model Housewife Mrs. Rita Moore, 25, said: "I have never posed In the nude for Mr. Burgess or
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    Lock icon Election Soon In Sarawak
    165 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —The Malaysian Cabinet agreed today that the resumption of elections in East Malaysia should be "as soon as practicably possible." Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, in a statement said: "The Chairman of the Elections Commission. Tan Sri Ahmad Perang. attended the meeting and
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    Lock icon SOUVANNA 'HAPPY' TO TALK
    97 1 VIENTIANE. Wed .(rPI) Prince Souvanna Phouma said today he welcomed a Communist Pathet LAO proposal for talks to end the war, provided it is not "a diversionary manoeuvre" to mask future military operations. An announcement after a cabinet meeting said the Royal Lao Government has long
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    Lock icon Flyover Collapse Inquiry Underway
    169 1 The Public Works Department has started investigations into the fatal collapse of four concrete beams at the Thomson Road flyover. "We will Issue a statement once we have determined the cause of the accident." a spokesman said yesterday. It is learned that Gammons (S> Ltd., which
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    Lock icon MANILA PROBES GUERRILLA CLAIM
    297 1 'Trained In Malaysia' W MANILA, Wed. (UPI) The Philippines alleged today that Malaysia had trained 120 Filipino Moslems in guerrilla warfare. A Philippine constabulary spokesman said the youths were trained for 18 months by British instructors and then sent home. Constabulary information officer Major Reynaldo San
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    Lock icon Vatican Strike
    38 1 VATICAN CITY, Wed. (Reuter) The Vatican was hit by a strike today for the first time In living memory when staff of the world-famous Vatican museums refused to open up in a protest for more Pay.
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    Lock icon Boy To Be Sold To Please Saint
    208 1 RECIFE, Brazil, Wed. (UPI —The parents of four boys and three girls will auction off one of the children to pay a promise to a Roman Catholic saint. The child's parents. Lourival Jose Luna and Maria Tetullana Luna, say they will auction off
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    Lock icon Singapore Hub For Pacific Development Says Banker
    130 1 Singapore could be the focal point for a period of great economic expansion in the Pacific, a prominent London banker said yesterday. Sir George Bolton, Chairman of the Bank of London and South America aaif the Pacific basin had "two generations of unlimited
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    Lock icon IT'S A BIG JOKE SAYS SHAW'S CHIEF
    119 1 HONG KONG. Wed. <UPI) —Shaw Brothers studio's production cHief. Raymond Chow today said newspaper reports that he would Quit his job by the end of March was 'a big joke" "I have never said such a thing, and I have no intention to
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    Lock icon $13,500 Price On Chin Peng
    110 1 BANGKOK. Wed. (AFP) The Thai and Malaysian governments have put a SSI 3,500 price on the head of Chin Peng, leader of the Communist terrorists on the ThaiMalaysian border. Reports said the Malaysian Government has posted a 510.500 reward for the capture or death of
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    Lock icon Red Guerrilla Camps 'Open' In West Bengal
    52 1 NEW DELHI. Wed (Renter) —Extremist Communists •re organising guerrilla training centre® In West Bengal. Home Minister Y ash want R*o Chavan told Parliament today. Chavan said that the Naxalit* Communists who organised these centres were verv active in Bengal "in a disguised or
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    Lock icon PI Quake Kills 4 In Family Tragedy
    206 3 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) —An earthquake yesterday hit the Central Philippine area. It killed four persons, including a mother who was breast-feeding her child and a woman who was to be married next month. The Philippine news service today reported a giant boulder the
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    Lock icon How A Singer Changed History
    182 3 TRIPOLI, Wed. (AFP) The story of how an Arab woman singer known as 'the Nightingale of the Nile/ unwittingly foiled a revolution, was revealed for the first time yesterday. Libya's new strongman, Colonel Muammer El-Kad-hafl, wrote in a Tripoli newspaper article that he had plotted
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    Lock icon Atkins Will Deny Testimony
    77 3 LOS ANGELES. Wed. /Reuter) A lawyer for Susan Atkins, the 21-year-old hippie. declared last right she would deny everything she told a grand jury iast December. It wa s on the strength, 0 f Miss Atkins' testimony that the srrand jury indicted her, Charles Manson. 35.
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    Lock icon Expo '70 Invites Cancelled
    212 3 JOHANNES BURG, Wed. (Reuter) —Invitations to four South African traffic officials to visit Expo 70 in Osaka were withdrawn shortly before their scheduled departure for Japan, the officials announced. J. Lend rum, chief traffic officer of Natal, declared yesterday the Invitations were extended by the Broadcasting
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    Lock icon A Rat's Life
    89 3 TAIPEI. Wed. 'Reuter)— —Lile for Nationalist China's 70 million rats may soon become harder owing to a government move to reduce their 400 million U.S-doilar-a-year food plunder. The Central News Agency reported today a new committee will be set up to coordinate the island's rodent control efforts.
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    Lock icon No Police Protection For Americans In PI
    140 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) —A congressman recently back from Manila today accused the Philippines police of failing to provide adequate protection for U.S. personnel there. Representative Charles Wilson, a California Democrat, described as "unacceptable' and 'disgraceful' the number of attacks on Americans in the
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    Lock icon 'Reds Buy ARVN Uniforms To Infiltrate Saigon'
    218 3 SAIGON, Wed. (UPI) The Government warned last night that the Communists are trying to buy South Vietnamese uniforms to infiltrate Saigon for a surprise attack on the capital. The warning was carried on the government television network. The telecast quoted a "source from
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    Lock icon HK's First In-Flight Customs
    147 3 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Hong Kong will today send an immigration officer all the way to Bali so that a group of wealthy American businessmen won't have to go through the formalities when they get here, it was announced yesterday. Immigration Director Derek Readman warned, however.
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    Lock icon Beat Dateline By 3 Days
    127 3 OSAKA, Japan, Wed. (UPI) —Japanese workmen once again displayed their split-second timing by completing five years of subway construction today just three days before the world's biggest show of 1970 opens in this exposition city. Osaka's subway system was enlarged by 38.4 miles of tracks
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    Lock icon PARK GIVES TOP JOB TO HIS CRITIC
    390 3 ROK Cabinet Reshuffle SEOUL, Wed. (Reuter) President Paik hat thrown the South Korean opposition off balance by bringing one of his leading critics into his cabinet. Kim Yungu "Stik, 52, was once imprisoned under President Park's administration. He was named Minister of National
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    Lock icon Asians Besiege UK High Commission
    257 3 KAMPALA, Uganda, Wed. (UPI> A British official was yesterday punched on the face when angry Asians laid siege to the British High Commission. Violence flared at the end of a sit-in at the commission to protest London's policies toward East African Asians holding British passports.
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    Lock icon Jab-Happy
    81 3 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Young drug experimenters are injecting themselves with water, boiled milk, intoxicating liquors and barbiturates in the growth of a "needle cult'' that is sweeping the country, a police report announced on Monday. The report by the Hertfordshire County Police Division added drug addict regietrations in the
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    61 3 SEOUL. Wed. (UPI) Six persons were killed yesterdav when a three-ton motor boat with 18 crewmen and passengers and 200 bags of chemical fertilizer aboard capsized in the Yellow Sea of Ongkwang, 130 miles south of Seoul, police announced. The skipper and 11 others swam to safety or
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      154 3 From April Ist. DIRECT to Hong Kong three times a week Cathay Pacific fly to Hong Kong direct Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday. Four times a week to Hong Kong via Bangkok. Choose where you want to go from Hong Kong.You've flights to Tokyo, Taipei Osaka. You fly in 4 engine
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    Lock icon USSR SUB SPIES ON UK NEW CARRIER
    224 4 mnF,ANn-SEEK AT SEA LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Western warships sight, ed and chased a Russian submarine believed to be spy. ing on Iritain's newly re-fitted air-craft carrier 'Ark Royal', oH Portsmouth Naval Base, Defence sourcos announced today. A Defence Ministry spokesman disclosed the 'Ark
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    Lock icon The Long Electronic Arm Of The Law
    244 4 SAN FRANCISCO, Wad. (Reuter) —A comCuter system heralding id news for criminals across the United States was unveiled here yester6'LL The system includes press button dials In police patrol cars that enables officers to send routine and emergency message* to headquarters in about
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    Lock icon QUAKE CITY STILL MENACED: PROF.
    373 4 POZZUOLI, Italy, Wed. (UPI) —The people of Poszuoli may learn the fate of their threatened city from the readings of instruments installed by Japanese scientists. Izuml Yoicoyama. a professor of geophysics at Hokkaido University, and his assistant, Prof. Irota Tomoyasu, have been in Pozzuoll since
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    Lock icon BOY KILLS MOTHER
    72 4 SAN JOSE. California, Wed (Reuter) A 13-year-old schoolboy wa* held here on charaes of shooting dead hi s mother She had apparently remostrated with him for playing truant, police said Th« boy. detained yesterdav. shot hi* mother with s rifU h« took from a closet in the
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    Lock icon Mystery Body In Car Explosion
    234 4 BEL AIR, Maryland, Wed. (UPI and AFP) The trial of black militant Rap Brown was adjourned on Tuesday. He was initially thought to be one of the 2 Negroes killed In a car explosion on Mon. day night. At a late afternoon news conference, assistant
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    Lock icon Gina Will Sue Papers
    94 4 ROME, Wed (UPI) Actress Glna Lollobrlglda returned from a tour of the United States yesterday and announced she will sue newspapers that published love letters she allegedly sent to Dr. Chrlstlaan Barnard. The West German magailne 'Quick' this week published what it claimed was an ardent
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    Lock icon Ticking Her Off For A Ticket
    87 4 GLOUCESTER, England, Wed. (Reuterj—Motorist Gordon Keen, 37, was so incensed at receiving a parking ticket from a woman traffic warden that he thrust it straight back down the front of her uniform. Then he grabbed 49-year-old Mrs. Audrey Price and threatened to throw her
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    105 4 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Member of Parliament savs women Probablv could do better Job of catching gier* He suggests ths-v be hired as British customs inspectors Aidressin* Hous* of Commons Estimates subCommittee on Monday, Arthur Levis Labour MP for West Ham North, said any husband would probably s*v
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    Lock icon NOW A PURGE ON TEACHERS
    107 4 PRAGUE. Wed. (UPI) Hardline Czechoslovak officials are moving "inconspiculously and quietly" to purge the nation's universities of reformist professors and students, party sources announced yesterday. The sources disclosed Education Minister Jaromir Hrbek plans to get rid of one-third of all professors by June. Professors are
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    Lock icon Reporter In Belgrade Arrested For Spying
    118 4 KLGKAOC. Wed. (A IT) The Mptdi eorrespondent of the Weat German wnkiy magatine "Der Spiegel" was irrwted yeea« charftt of espionage, Tan jut New* Agency announced last sight. Two Yugoslavians were arrested alon c with the reporter, Hana Rullman Rullman is s West German
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    Lock icon World's Biggest Oil Slick Danger
    281 4 VENICE, Louisiana, Wed. (UPI) Fire-fightors yesterday put out the Gulf of Mexico's biggest oil fire with a mighty dynamite blast. Then they tried to control what could grow into history's largest oil slick. Crude oil spewed In a dark brown geyser 100 feet high above
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    Lock icon Lin Tsui And Wang Yu Married
    143 4 HONO KONG. Wed UPI) Actress Jeanette Lin Tsui today announced she and actor Wang Yu wed secretly on Monday. She already ha* two children by Wang Yu. An English tabloid, the China Mall, described the marriage a* the climax of "one of the most
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    Lock icon POLICE FREE SIX GREEK CYPRIOTS
    258 4 Makarios* Assassination Attempt: NICOSIA, W«4. (AFP) Cyprus police yesterday released six of 10 Greek cypriots arrested in connection with I ast Sunday's attempt to assassinate President j p I os One of tKoee still detained include director of 'Gnomi', the weekly mouth piece of the
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      59 5 JOIN I 9 f T Yrx I \N \> I V s k 0 I B I I WW I Ac t-J"" m 9 i'-JrA M *-vf *rl^* r k v n y "*,U u -*^>i2r 17, ic /.Tw KffiQ Hi. Jl/ every Sunday fren> Hjflifr 22nd march 1970 Singapore's
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    Lock icon WHITHER COMMONWEALTH?
    941 6 "POREIGN Minister S. Rajaratnam's comments on the Commonwealth at the seminar on "The Changing Patterns in the Organization and Conduct of Foreign Policy"' comes at a time when the Commonwealth itself is slowly frittering away. Perhaps there is a mystique about the Commonwealth to which Mr. Rajaratnam refers
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    Lock icon WHERE IS GOVERNOR HARRIMAN ?
    765 6  - WHERE IS GOVERNOR HARRIMAN By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON Where Is Gov. Averell Harriman, one wonders? And why has he not been speaking up aboiit the currently dangerous problem in Laos? With great patience and astuteness. and under instruction from President Kennedy, Gov. Harriman negotiated the Geneva Accord on Laos in
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    Lock icon Students Win A Major Point On Secret Dossiers
    607 6  -  (By Fred Mpanga, Gemini News Service) LONDON: The opposite of low and order is not necessarily chaos or anarchy. There can be a grey area in between where the law may even give the impression of looking like an ass. In Britain
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    Lock icon Maltese Sappers Win Gratitude Of Tunisians
    435 6  -  By J.P. Scicluna VALETTA, (Reuter) Fifty men of the Royal Engineers Maltese Sappers with British officers are helping Tunisia to repair some of the damage it suffered during disastrous floods last October. The troop® form part 0 f an International rescue operation which Includes
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    Lock icon Self- Identification Labels
    344 6  - SelfIdentification Labels By r Dick West WASHINGTON. (IPI) New political labeU are being fabricated with unprecedented frequency these days. Which is causing a lot of confusion among the U.S. electorate. Many people are uncertain as to which label applies to them. They can t tell whether thev are "effete snobs."
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    Lock icon Ending Corruption In Indonesia: Where To Start Is The Problem Facing Suharto
    430 6  -  By Soehar Jono JAKARTA, (Reuter) Rock-bottom wages are forcing Indonesian government employees ranging from generals to postmen to devise ingenious ways of supplementing their income. Grinding poverty faces those civil servants and others who rely only on their
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  • Letters...
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      Lock icon DENTAL CLINICS
      209 6  -  WONG MOOK QUI Assistant Director of Medical Services (Dental). Ministry of Health, Singapore. In the Eastern Sun dated 4th March 1970. you have published a letter from a reader who has asked why dental clinics providing dental care have been established in government primary schools but not in
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      Lock icon Why This Difference?
      94 6  -  N.S.L. I stay In Margaret Drive. Whenever my baby is 111 I bring her to the Queenstown Child Health Centre where she is seen and treated free of charge. Sometimes, when this Centre 1s crowded I bring her next door to the Queenstown Outpatient Clinic where I
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon INDUSTRIALS SLIGHTLY DOWN
      306 7 INDUSTRIALS drifted lower after opening around Hie previous day's levels on the stock market yesterday. Trading was moderate and total turnover returned to about 2.1 million units. Generally, operators dealt routinely with profittaking largely maintained in the selected industrials. On the balance, about 42 industrials lost, 17
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      969 7 T>USINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS Ac ma $2.40 (4) $2.41 (1); DIM $2.42 (1); Alcan $2.02 (4) $2.01 (3)
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      Lock icon Gold Prices Up Slightly
      94 7 NEW YORK Wed. UPI) Gold prices rose slightly In routine trading Tuesday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold gained 3 cents at the morning fixing but lost 2 cent* for a second fixing of $34 96 a troy ounce. Gold closed at $34.95 bid.
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      Lock icon Wrist Watches Exports Up
      45 7 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI> Japan's export* of wrist watches hare Increased sharply In recent year* despite Swiss competition an<i reached total of 11.300.000 last year. Time Piece Industry source* revealed yesterday. It said this was considerable Increase over 8.580.000 exported In 1968
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      37 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrial* 779.70 20 transps 176.48 15 utilities 117.24 65 stocks 261 91 40 bonds 69.73 Commodity futures index 133.77.
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $677.00 per picul. down $5.62£.
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      694 7 BID and offer prices officially listed yesterday at the close of business in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia an* 1 Singapore were: INDUSTRIALS Bui rtt Sellers Ac ma 2.41 242 A lca n 196 198 Ben ft Co 1-iti Borneo Bhdi;» 1
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      Lock icon London Stock Market Irregular
      144 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPP There was little reaction In stock markets yesterday to the Treasury's Impressive balance of payments surplus for 1969 announced Monday. Most sections of the market saw a narrowly Irregular course, though near the close buyers came in for the leaders. By late afternoon
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      Lock icon PESO STEADY
      25 7 MANILA. Wed. <UPI> The Philippine peso's daily "floating exchange rate" remained relatively steady at 6.10 pesos to US$l Wednesday in Manila* inter-bank transactions.
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 59 3/4 Cts.
      285 7 March first grade rubber buyer* closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday a t 59-3/4 rentspp r lb down three eighths of a cert from the previous close. The tone of the market was easier. The morning market was generally quiet and trading
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      Lock icon BANK RATES
      64 7 THE Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchant* f rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency >: SELLINO T.T. or OD ready: Deutsche Marks $33.9000; Holland Guilders $B4 9825; Swlas Francs $71.6425; Belgian Francs $6
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      102 7 THE noon prtrta at iOf ~m tapore Chinese Prodnce v.xfhinjf mtfrdtr «rrf> B"t>« Keller < oconot oil irnB i Bnlk *6 30 1 uconoi oil <1 o H i Drum 59 V) Miked opra 34 0V Muntok Unllf Pepper (FOB) 167 .V) Sarawak While pepper iroBi 16.". 00 *»rH»»k
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      86 7 (ManafW Prtf* for March It) CH %K 1 KKt 1) IM1 IKIolo 8. Growth Fund 111 1 16 AMI4 I MT TBl>Tt» Mai ln»m Fund l 32 in MMJAPOKK UNIT 1RLST9 lit llalW* t 9? 2nd *tln|ap»rf tl.l 3rd Singapore 1 33 The torn Ind 10? 1 12
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      Lock icon MINES RECOVER
      345 7 v% Closing Prices SYDNEY, Wed. (UPI) —A slight recovery was evident in speculative mining stocks on the Sydney stock exchange today. Falls outnumbered rises 2/1 in the mining section and almost 3/1 on the oil boards. Carr Boyd posted a strong rise of A* 1.30 to close at
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE $5 ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon My Childhood Recollections
      409 8 AMONG the many memories I recollect often, quite a number are from my exciting younger days Obviously it goes without saying that a person's childhood days are amongst the best times of one's life Some incidents may possess some sentimental value that a person might even remember
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      Lock icon "Never Again Such An Experience"
      491 8 KEWSPAPERS are the only source to read about kidnappings, robberies, and murders. I had an experience sometime back. One Sunday, when I was walking down a lonely lane which led to the beach, two men confronted me. I struggled but it was of no use.
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      Lock icon Susan Is My Best Friend
      233 8 EVERYONE has a friend. If a person has no friends, he or she will be very lonely and sad. Near my house. I have a friend Her name Is Susan She is tall and quitr fat. She has long hair. Susan's age is thirteen. She
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      Lock icon Make The Most Of School Days
      232 8 ALMOST one-fourth of our lifetime is sp»nt in school. It is also a most important since we are preparing our future and to face our duty to the community. Meanwhile we also make our life-long friends who would be a great help in our
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      Lock icon My Visit To Indonesia
      278 8 TWO YEARS AGO. I spent my long vacation In Indonesia. I was very happy to be there slnee It was my first visit. It was dunng the Christmas season. I went to Indonesia by ship with my family. We landed at the port of Belawan As
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      Lock icon When I Returned Home, A Big Surprise Awaited Me
      452 8 IT WAS about an inch higher than it was a few days ago At that time, it was a mere little se*d seeking refuge in my garden Soon it would oe another inch taller or may be more I then transferred
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      186 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page ever? Thursday One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young bovs and gtrls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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      390 8 EASTERN SUN ITT TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OFFICIAL E.VTRT FORM Identify the picture:..^.. 3 m *v* •sr- MP Count W :-:rEntrant's Particulars Nam*: Mr Miss Address: dosing date: 19.3.70 Cut Here WHIT YOU HA Vk. TO DO: 1) Lata da* th* weea. tba taatero Sao will paM!»B a photograph >) Identlfj
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      62 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWiHiams I'LL BE BACK IN A MINUTE, TROV. IF ADA JACKSON WANTS TO OOOWN WERSELP PAR BE IT PROM ME TO CAST THE ONLY "NO' VOTE ffl J VA 18 T «K THE WIZARD OF ID vi m M 33 m DM "II*)
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      17 8 AMY ml i i m i "Archie, 1 don't like for people to mod over jny *houlder.>
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    Lock icon Bouncy, Beautiful and Blonde!
    346 9 JEm Sensational Hairstyles For The 70s Girl! rpHE seventies girl it a high-powered supergirl, running oil tho most sought-after jobs with unbelievably smooth efficiency. Astronaut, Archbishop, Prime Minister she sees herself doing whatever she fancies. For the choice is ever-widening to take it or leave it
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    Lock icon How To Get That Job (and girl too)
    526 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR READERS: With »o much being said and written about teen-agers these days I thought you might be interested in an open letter that hit my desk today. Here it Is; Deat Kid: Today you came to me for a
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    Lock icon Scarves Large And Colourful
    75 9 WHATEVER other change* are going on In faahlon, scarves continue to hold their high place this season. Stoles are being done In a new way. as long border scarves to wear around the neck and knot in front, so the end* fall nearly to the drea«
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    Lock icon Updated Teen Fashion Book
    66 9 SO quickly does fashion move these days that a book in the field published only three years ago Is already coming out In an updated edition. It s the Seventeen Book of Fashion and Beauty." over 250 pages of news on the latest looks interspersed with
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    Lock icon Accessories
    29 9 ACCESSORY Interest In Paris often focused on the neck Seen everywhere in the spring collection* were oacirbwis IP«4* of fabric* a* Uu •amtx Wvw gibbon and thin metals.
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      Lock icon Recs Put Ceylonese Beyond Hockey Title
      444 11 Ceylon Sports Club, strong contenders, are out of the running for the SNA Division One league title., when they went down 0-1 to last year's runnerj-up Singapore Recreation Club at Balestier Road yesterday. With this defeat CSC slipped to fourth place with nine points
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      87 11 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter> An opening partnership of 219 runs by Geoff Boycott and Alan Jones enabled the touring MCC team to declare at 223 for one In a one-day exhibition match with the Royal Bangkok Sports Club today. Boycott's rapid-fire 116 hit in 140 minutes Included 14 fours
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      68 11 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI) Hong Kong will participate in the Asian Table Tennis Championships to be held in Nagoya, Japan, in April, Hong Kong Table Tennis Association President Chung WingKwong said today. Chung, who is also the Vice-President of the Asian Table Tennis Federation, said Hong Kong will
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      Lock icon Andrews Old Boys Win Badminton
      278 11 THE St. Andrew's Old Boys Team pipped the present boys team 4-3 in their annual badminton match played at the Singapore Badminton Hall recently. Led by the former Singapore champion, Seah Lye Huat, the old boys won two singles and two doubles matches to clinch
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      Lock icon No Practice For Japan's Cup Stars
      162 11 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) Japan's Davis Cup players sat In their hotel rooms today unable to practice because of bad weather which has stuck to Hong Kong for the past week Hong Kong and Japan play their Eastern Zone first round tie on Saturday.
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      110 11 CHRISTCHURCH. N.Z. Wed. (Reuten New Zealand paceman Dayle Hadlee. who injured his back during the first unofficial Cricket Test against Australia "B" which ended in a draw yesterday, has been replaced by Murray Webb for the second clash starting here tomorrow. New Zealand have made
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      107 11 BANGKOK, Wed. UPI) —Former Malaysian Thomas Cup Champion Wong Peng Soon will be hired by the Badminton association of Thailand (BAT) to coach their players. Picnsak Sosetthikul, Secretary General of BAT said Wednesday the Association is studying the possibility ot hiring a permanent coach for the
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      Lock icon Sparkling Gallop By Commander-In-Chief
      333 11  -  By Jimmy Lad TRAINER George West's pair, Macondo (Coles) and Sp*nifex (Subian) were associated in an interesting trial when they raced over 3f in 27 4/5 on a good track here yesterday morning. There was very little between them at the finish. Special Film, with George
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      Lock icon Australia Leads In Tennis
      188 11 CAMBRIDGE. Maw, Wed (Reuter) Australia took a commanding 3-1 lead over the United States in their unofficial "world title" tennis match here when John Newcombe last night defeated Stan Smith and Newrombe teamed with this 20.000-<jonar best-of-Fred Stolle to win a doubles match. The Australian professionals
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      67 11 NEW YORK Wed (UPI) Followine are Tuesday's exhibition baseball results: Atianta 3 Minnesota 3 Pittsburgh 8 Cincinnati 4 Washington 6 New York Yankees 4 Houston 6 Boston 3 St Loulj S Lo* An*eiea 1 Baltimore 9 Montreal 1 New York Mets 3 Detroit 4 Chicago Cuhs 4 San
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      506 11 COPENHAGEN, Wed. (UPI and Reuter) Denmark's fop badminton star, S*end Pri, celebrated hit 24th birthday yesterday with a three-sat win over Junji Noma of Japan to qualify for the semi-finals in the men's singles at tha 18th open championships. Prl won 4-15. 15-10. 15-10 after
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      355 11 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Nobur Chiba of Japan tonight wrested the Orient Featherweight crown from Herbert Kang by making a punching baa out of the South Korean for a onesided 12-round decision at Korakuen Hall Chiba 25. Japanese Featherweight champion and the Orient No 7 featherweight contender,
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      90 11 At an extraordinary meeting to hear the appeal of the Girls Sport> Club, the Singapore Women Hotkey Association upheld the decision of the committee to expel the Girls Sports Club by 18 votes to seven, with two votes spoilt. The President, on behalf of the SWHA stated
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      1174 11 (CHANNEL 5) P M 3 00 Opening Announce ments in all Languages 4: General Hospital; 3.20 Another Song Another Melodv «.Malay > (Repeat'; 3.35 It* Happening ir Singapore «Chinese) < Repeat); 3.55 Housewives Matinee (Her Foolish Heart Part 2 of a Mandarin Pilm> English Subtitles: 500 Close Down 605 Opening
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    357 12 AN American aircraft firm yesterday announced the signing of a six-year agreement with the Singapore Government to perform third and fourth line (heavy) maintenance of all aircraft of the Singapore Air Force. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation also announced the establishment of a new Singapore
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    206 12 THE President of Mobil Oil Corporation, Mr. William P. Tavoulareas, arrived in Singapore last night to acquaint himself with the economic growth and pontential of this entire area an< a so t ie exploration boom in the region. He is accompanied by Mr. Curtis M. Klaerner,
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    85 12 A durability test of army boots will be carried out during a 550mile walk from Singapore to Klang and back on March 14. Two men hava been selected for this test which Is being organised by Bata Shoe (Singapore) Private Limited. It Is estimated that the walk will
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    96 12 TWO pedestrian# a «0-year-old man and an eight-year-old boy were killed, yesterday in two separate road mishaps The first occured at about 10 p.m. whan Cheng Hack Hee, 60. of Lim Chu Kang Road was knocked down by a motorcyclist at the 19 m.s. Lim Chu
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    55 12 KUCHING Wed. (AFP) —The government released 18 detainees at the Simanggan Detention Camp on Monday. a government statement said today. The 18, three of them women, pledged to severe their tie* w ith the Communists at a long house ceremony later. Thev were detained for giving support
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    379 12 V A u TE ?J^ AN JR* n#Pa trade de, egation from Pakistan yesterday met mem. ber* ot the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, headed by the President, Mr. Wee Citoo Taw. During the 35-minute talk, Hie head of the Pakistan delegation, Mr. S.
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    319 12 Mr. Philip Brass, Executive Vice-President of Faberge Incorporation, New York is currently in Singapore to survey the local market and to investigate the possibility of setting up a factory in this region. Mr. Brass, arrived two days ago from Sydney, after
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    110 12 This year has been "very successful" for the Children's Charities' Donation Draw which netted an "excellent amount" of $llO,OOO, First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah disclosed yesterday. "It took one and a half year* to achieve this and I take this opportunity to express my great admiration and
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    87 12 The Chinese Programme Manager of Redlffuslon Singapore, and also a member of the Kreta Ayer People's Theatre. Mr Liang Teck Yee. is the chairman of the panel of Judges for today's Toto draw at the Kreta Ayer People's Theatre at 7 30 pm The other Judges are
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      77 12 TIME AND TIDE TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.23 a.m. <9.6 ft.); 7.49 a.m. <l.l ft.»; 2.08 p.m. <B9 ft.); 801 p.m. <3.1 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD. 135 am. (11.1 ft.); 7.20 a.m. <l.B ft.); 2.10 p.m. (10.8 ft. >; 7.41 p.m. <3.9 ft TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.51 a.m. <9.4 ft.); 8.33 a.m.
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